My wife is moving to the UK shortly and has large savings in yen. She doesn't want to create a NISA before leaving and can't anyway she says because she doesn't have a residence card due to being between UK & JPN. She's exchanging a few grand gbp in cash then bringing that. She doesn't want to exchange more or online because the fees of doing so in addition to the weak conversion. Which I would understand if the yen was to start rising soon..
So I'm wondering what the cheapest fees/best app you recommend to exchange money from yen to gbp, and perhaps whether she's right in that we maybe shouldn't do so?
by Apprehensive_Bees